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Maranello Paddock wrote that Frédéric Vasseur had once again criticized the media after the Singapore race, asking them if they had asked as many questions to McLaren. He reminded that his two cars were in second and third places on track and that the team had asked them to pit under virtual safety car conditions. According to his account, one of the drivers preferred to stay on track and missed the pit entrance; Vasseur then requested that the team not be blamed. When asked about a possible later order to impose the pit stop, he replied that the team was not sure the cars could make it to the end and that they had simply chosen to follow the situation. #F1 #Singapour #Vasseur (translated)

Croissant Strike wrote that after Team Vitality CS's victory, the French apEX had resumed the celebration of Khvicha Kvaratskhelia, and that the Georgian footballer had noticed it. He described the scene as one of a champion recognizing another champion. https://t.co/nsWZdiSLHb #Esport #TeamVitality #Victoire (translated)

Tino explained that writing his book, "100 Tips for Successful Investing," had been one of the most difficult trials of his life. For nearly ten months, his perfectionism had, according to him, caused him doubts, frustrations, short nights, and sometimes tears. He added that the project had also weighed on his health and his private and family life. His partner, with whom he had shared his life for nearly fifteen years, had to accept his absences and the fact that writing sometimes took precedence over their life together, he wrote. Since finishing the book, he had been trying to reconnect with her over the moments that were set aside, while acknowledging that lost time could not really be made up. As the book was meeting with greater success than he had expected, Tino wanted to pay tribute to his partner, believing that without her support, the work probably would not have come to fruition. #Écriture #Amour #Sacrifice (translated)

The government of Singapore has launched a dating app called "FirstDate" to increase the birth rate in the country, which has fallen to a historic low in 2025, by suggesting suitable partners to unmarried civil servants using a specialized algorithm. #Singapur #DatingApp #Geburtenrate (translated)

During an intervention on BFMTV with Sonia Mabrouk, Robert Ménard stated that sometimes one must win a war rather than seek peace with certain adversaries. He mentioned his experience in war zones and asserted that one should not make peace with totalitarian regimes, dictators, and people he deemed abominable. He referred to Vladimir Putin as an "abominable character." #Ukraine #Trump #Poutine #Russie #Europe #Poutine #Russie #Ukraine (translated)

LETTERE MERIDIANE — “TEATRO-EDICOLA” OF SAN SEVERO CONQUERS THE WORLD SOURCE: https://www.letteremeridiane.org/2026/10/il-teatro-edicola-di-san-severo-conquista-il-mondo/?fbclid=IwY2xjawU4oqFleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBwZG9mAXNydGMGYXBwX2lkEDIyMjAzOTE3ODgyMDA4OTIAAR5rVEwYs6UUXg7v-P0SyIQ_DRb_F6ZiY58OcseYoV4J7atcTiERnhWaqKM2pw_aem_Njle1jq1XLzHr93KLBUcVA After “Broadway World”, the “Los Angeles Journal”, “The Psychologist (British Psychological Association)” and Hollywood Beat Magazine, its “academic consecration” has now arrived courtesy of Stanford University. As I have already emphasised in my article on the revival of the GIO Festival in Foggia, celebrated by BroadwayWorld for the world stage premiere of the Giordano’s opera Marina (1888), the province of Foggia has long ceased to be peripheral. It happens when it finds an idea that shifts the coordinates: well, in San Severo, 40 kilometres from Foggia, it has happened again. Only this time an orchestra was not needed; six chairs were enough. The celebrated Teatro-Edicola of San Severo artistic director Francesco Gravino of the theatre company Foyer ’97 has been featured in the academic journal “Stanford Social Innovation Review (SSIR)” as an academic case study. The news, relayed on 19 September 2026 by ANSA Nazionale, looked like a misprint. Then it became clear that it was not. SSIR, an award-winning publication covering multisectoral solutions to global problems, included the project in its Dispatches section with the reportage “The Six-Seat Revolution”. It is the inverse trajectory to that of the GIO Festival: not a forgotten opera returning to a grand historic Italian horseshoe theatre, but an entire theatre reborn inside a disused place, forgotten by man. There are moments when past and future intertwine to create something visionary, innovative, artistically “revolutionary”: San Severo experienced one of those moments on the morning of 27 March 2026, during World Theatre Day, when the shutter of a newsstand closed for six years in Via Matteo Tondi was reopened “not to sell newspapers, but to offer stirring stories”, to quote Gravino’s motto. The idea of the visionary Francesco Gravino, artistic director, stage director and actor of the San Severo company Foyer ’97, active for at least 30 years in Capitanata, centred on the kiosk, hexagonal in metal and glass, granted free of charge by its owner Pino Frau, by now an urban relic created by the publishing crisis of the early 2000s: today in Italy active newsstands have fallen from about 35,000 in 2005 to about 20,000 in 2024, a decline of 42.8%. Gravino and eleven other actors restructured it in two weeks of work, without institutional funding, and transformed it into what is now under examination by the London commission of Guinness World Records as the “world’s smallest theatre”. The formula is deliberately austere: six spectators at a time outside, actors inside at less than a metre’s distance, 15-minute performances, continuous rotation from 11:00 to 20:45, texts ranging from Goldoni to Chekhov, from Ibsen to Dacia Maraini. On the door a QR code with an original theatrical warning: “Warning! This QR code transforms passers-by into actors. Scan only if ready.” The numbers immediately showed that it was no boutade: more than 60 people in a single afternoon, three inaugural days that sold out. But above all a positive echo that went beyond the borders of San Severo. “Broadway World” (just as in the previous case of the GIO Festival), the world’s most influential theatre criticism outlet with over 5.5 million monthly views, devoted exclusive coverage to it on 27 April 2026: “An Abandoned Italian Newsstand Just Became the World’s Smallest Theatre”. Not a mere listing, but an analysis: “There is no foyer, there is no balcony, there is no grid. There is barely a wing. What there is is something almost unrecognisable as an evening at the theatre, and for that very reason it is all the more powerful.” “Broadway World” captured Gravino’s manifesto idea: “This is a theatre of proximity. In an era of digital distance, we are putting human contact back at the centre,” framing it as “More than a clever exercise in site-specific theatre. It is a reappropriation.” All of this, in a Mezzogiorno of Italy often narrated only in terms of organised crime and marginalisation. To that seal of approval was added another, even more disorienting for a newsstand in San Severo: the “Los Angeles Journal”, one of the most influential publications on the West Coast for the performing arts. On 12 May 2026, it headlined thus: “San Severo’s Teatro-Edicola as an Innovative Model for Los Angeles Theaters?” opening as follows: “In a city in southern Italy that Hollywood has never heard of, a theatre director has just built the smallest stage in the world: six seats, fifteen minutes, zero distance. Los Angeles should pay attention.” The “Los Angeles Journal” does not indulge in folklore, but places the kiosk in Via Matteo Tondi alongside the prestigious 1,600-seat Ahmanson Theatre in Los Angeles, the Pantages of Broadway in Hollywood, the 99-seat plan of Rogue Machine, the Odyssey, the Victory Theatre and the Hollywood Fringe. It even recalls Ethan Marks’s Electrical Box Theatre, a veritable electrical box lined with red velvet in downtown Los Angeles, to argue that Gravino has taken to the extreme the question Los Angeles has been asking itself for decades: How small can a stage become before it ceases to be a stage? And it recognizes the San Severo urban model: almost zero cost, two weeks of work and six chairs, in return for immediate provincial, regional and national media coverage, recognition by the San Severo’s Municipal Administration, and a format exportable anywhere. Then, the third American piece came from “Hollywood Beat Magazine” on 20 April 2026: Six seats. Fifteen minutes. One actor. No stage. The magazine recounts the kiosk in Via Tondi left disused for almost six years, the contemporary six-seat cultural outpost, placing Francesco Gravino in a distinguished genealogy: Richard Schechner and environmental theatre, Jerzy Grotowski and poor theatre, Nicolas Bourriaud and relational aesthetics. But it closes with pragmatism: it is not a thesis, it is fixing a street corner, that is, repairing an urban street corner by asking not how large a theatre can become, but how small it must become again to recover its original power. And finally, the celebrated London-based “The Psychologist”, the journal of the “British Psychological Society (BPS)”, the oldest psychological society in the world, transformed the Teatro-Edicola into a scientific case study: on 30 July 2026 it published “The world’s smallest theatre — and Psychologists’ next act”, starting from the same detail, the morning of 27 March when the metal shutter of the hexagonal kiosk in Via Tondi reopened after six years, six people inside, an actor at less than a metre’s distance beginning Chekhov. It describes the formula: six spectators, 15 minutes, 11 actors over 10 hours, from Goldoni to Euripides, inside a kiosk where the fourth wall does not break because architecturally it never existed. But the BPS goes a step further: it cites the 2025 studies by Damien Gabriel in IBRO Neuroscience Reports, that live performance generates measurably stronger emotional and physiological activation than video, and introduces Edward Hall’s proxemics: below one metre is intimate space, reserved for doctors, close friends, lovers. In that one-square-metre space, the actor’s breath is audible, micro-expressions legible, the self-other boundary becomes permeable. The Teatro-Edicola “does not make theatre better, it makes it inevitable”. And it is here that one understands why Stanford is studying it as an academic case study in social innovation, not as a case of artistic originality. In Italy, meanwhile, the national media circuit had already picked up the phenomenon: RaiNews — TG2 Storie brought it to RaiDue at midnight on 19 April. RTL 102.5 devoted space to the format conceived by Gravino and developed by Foyer ’97 in the heart of San Severo in Via Tondi, defining it as a permanent micro-stage capable of bringing theatre into public space. ANSA.it, Gazzetta del Mezzogiorno, La Repubblica, TG2000, Radio Capital, Swiss RSI, ANSA Brazil and many others followed. And for the record: Fiorello praised it in La Pennicanza as an artistic case inspired by his Edicola Fiore, and Biagio Antonacci, on his tour in the Augustan amphitheatre of Lucera, made a “fact-finding” stop at the Teatro-Edicola singing the celebrated and nostalgic Iris in front of an audience certainly larger than the “six seats”. Francesco Gravino’s theatre company Foyer ’97 was not born yesterday: behind it lie the Teatro-Cantina of 2016, the underground theatre, and in 2011 a performance on the bell tower of a church in the centre of San Severo at 45 metres high. The Teatro-Edicola completes, in Gravino’s words, “the entire vertical extension of theatre: underground, street level, rooftop”. And it is preparing for its thirtieth anniversary in 2027 aiming to purchase the kiosk to make it permanent, exporting the “San Severo Model” to Rome, Lucca, and to the festivals of Santarcangelo and Todi. As with the GIO Festival, someone might dare to claim that it is merely a stunt, but when BroadwayWorld places you alongside the Los Angeles Opera House, the “Los Angeles Journa”l proposes you as a model for Hollywood, “Hollywood Beat Magazine” reads you through Grotowski and the “British Psychological Society” uses you to explain mirror neurones, it is no longer a stunt but an excellent artistic and academic positioning. To those who still whisper that Foggia and Capitanata are provincial, the answer is now written on two opposite and complementary fronts: on 5 June in Foggia a 138-year-old opera found the stage again at the Giordano ending up on BroadwayWorld; on 27 March in San Severo a 4-square-metre kiosk invented a stage that did not exist, ending up at Stanford, in Los Angeles, in Hollywood and in London. The periphery, when it has a precise idea, becomes the centre. Even with six chairs. Luciano Magaldi Sardella

StagePop reported that internet users questioned the TSE about the removal of the channel "TROPA DO FLÁVIO" after the release of a video that associated a red-haired girl with the use of illegal substances during a supposed Lula rally. According to the publication, the girl was Chilean and the images had been recorded at a demonstration in Chile, but were linked to an event of the Brazilian president. #TSE #LiberdadeDeExpressão #FakeNews (translated)

Actu Foot reported that İlkay Gündogan had considered Rodri as the most complete defensive midfielder in the world for years. He also believed that Rodri had been the best player of the 2026 World Cup and had made a difference by anticipating the game, winning important duels, and controlling the pace with his passes. #Football #Mondial2026 #Rodri (translated)

Despite a 28-point loss for the Las Vegas Raiders against the New England Patriots, a fan celebrates the debut of top pick Fernando Mendoza, who successfully completes six of eight passes for 48 yards in his first NFL appearance. #NFLDebüt #LasVegasRaiders #FernandoMendoza (translated)

Actu Foot noted that Olympique de Marseille was fielding young players from the training center, especially during times of crisis, but these appearances had rarely been disappointing lately. The account also reported the first start in Ligue 1 for Kamissoko, born in 2004 and presented as Malian. https://t.co/rRsnmz7eMt #OM #Ligue1 #JeunesTalents (translated)

Walid Acherchour harshly criticized Angel Gomes on After RMC, judging his level to be very insufficient since the start of the season. He had hoped that coach Genesio would allow him to regain the form he had shown at Lille, but believed that his game lacked initiative and risk-taking. Acherchour added that Olympique de Marseille needed to find a solution without him and that he was, in his opinion, the player to be sidelined. #OlympiqueDeMarseille #AngelGomes #Ligue1 (translated)

Massilia Zone reported Sofascore statistics for Nouhoum Kamissoko's first starting appearance: 73 minutes played, 72 touches of the ball, and 89% successful passes. He also registered six recoveries, eight duels won out of 14, including two aerial duels won out of two, and a rating of 7.1. https://t.co/PwHOG7sTNv #Football #Stats #Performance (translated)

British Prime Minister Andy Burnham has promised to show transparency by making public his past interactions with Manchester City, after the club was found guilty of several financial violations, while defending the need to separate investment issues from football. #ManchesterCity #PremierLeague #AndyBurnham (translated)

Impact wrote to Cauet that the situation in Gaza constituted genocide and that repeating the contrary in Bolloré's media would not change reality, according to him. Regarding the interviews asking young people to choose between Israel and Palestine, he criticized him for not considering that answering "Palestine" could express support for the bombarded Palestinians. Impact also defended the ability of high school students to understand the situation, support the Palestinians, and reject anti-Semitism while putting forward their own demands. He finally pointed out that Cauet's arrival at Bolloré was only a few weeks ago and expressed his support for Palestine. #FreePalestine #Gaza #Solidarité (translated)

Hugo reported, citing L’Équipe, that Loïs Openda was set to undergo imaging tests the next day to check if he was suffering from a muscle injury or a bone fracture. The OL forward had received a heavy blow to the upper part of his right calf in Lens and was unable to continue the match. https://t.co/1TQzeJj1mU #OL #SaveourPlayers #FootballNews (translated)

Dividend King wrote that he saw in the morning an article presenting French bonds as having become attractive again, then another in the evening, stating that it was the ideal time to buy a new home in France. He concluded that these two asset classes should be avoided at the moment. #Finance #Investissement #Immobilier (translated)